It seems as if the lustrums slip past more swiftly than ever these days. Certainly the last few weeks of our publishing lustrum are all too short. One moment there is Plenty of Time. The next thing we know, the deadline is upon us and we must rush to press. Seems like we barely get our fingernails clean from one issue when it's time to ink up for the next.
And there are Problems involved in a publication like SFFY, a number of which are insurmountable. Those of you who've tried running with the wettest inks known to civilized man on bond-type paper, using external inking on a Speed-o-print Model L type mimeograph will know what I mean. I will spare the rest of you the gory details. I couldn't really explain what I mean ... not without getting tear-stains on the typer.
At no little effort and expense, we are again bringing you the most popular feature included in previous issues: a plethora of exciting new typographical errors. We are also including some sudden switches from the editorial "we" to the editorial "I" and back again. Despite the increasing costs of publication, we continue to feature these at no additional charge to you. However, we do ask that if you wish to point them out to us, you forward a small payment of 10¢ per typo to cover the cost of handling.
You may be interested to know that for this issue our editorial staff (namely me) had scoured the countryside, travelling to such wild and exotic places as San Diego and Brooklyn to obtain the material included herein. And we want to offer special thanks to our artists, who travelled from the remote wildernesses of New Jersey, Ft. Eustis, and Manhattan, to provide us with the illustrations for this issue, with one exception, committing them to stencil themselves. And an additional thanks goes to Ted White for getting us the paper and delivering it and all that. Much obliged.
Well, gang, this issue of SFFY is drawing rapidly to a close. As of this typing, almost all of it has been mimeoed, and there remains but the collating, mailing and jass like that. (!) We'd like to thank Mike McInerney and Cindy Heap for offering to help with that most vile aspect of fanzine publishing -- collating. And thanks in advance to those of you who find time to drop us a note of acknowledgement, or the like, in return for your copy of thish.
For those (like yed) who are absolutely fascinated by technical data, thish was cut on S-o-P Sovereign stencils (film topped and too expensive) with an IBM Model B (also too expensive). It is run on "White Special Mimeo" paper, obtained by Ted White from his Source (cheap! cheap!). Ink pads and inks are all S-o-P, fresh-bought for this occasion. Toner is again homemade. Staples are Bostitch stc-rp2115¼. Spine binding from a bargain table on Canal Street. As with last issue, the mimeoing was done on the erstwhile Spaceship Mimeo, in a hole in the ground. Thanks go to Bob Silverberg for the mimeo, a machine which is as fannishly old and tired as yed.
-LeeH
1966
DON'T FORGET, GANG!
*Yes, I know the NYCON 3 will occur in 1967, but I couldn't make it rhyme. The only rhyme I could think of for seven was heaven ... but anyway, it should be a whiz-bang convention, so try to make it, huh? And if you haven't joined yet, you'd better do so soon, lest you miss an issue of NYCON COMICS. Membership is $2.00 supporting, or $3.00 at ending. The address is:
Post Office Box 367
Gracie Square Station
New York, N.Y. 10028
Data entry by Judy Bemis
Hard copy provided by Geri Sullivan
Data entry by Judy Bemis
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